December 24, 2020 Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1918, Robert Dick, President Benjamin Harrison, Frances Garnet Wolseley, Helen Bayley Davis, Gardens of Style by Janelle McCulloch, and The Gardener’s Night Before Christmas
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Botanical History On This Day
1866 Robert Dick, Scottish geologist, botanist, and baker of Thurso, died; a self-taught naturalist with a cherished herbarium of some 3,000 specimens and a memorial obelisk in Thurso Cemetery.
1889 The First White House Christmas Tree delighted “Baby McKee” as President Benjamin Harrison and First Lady Caroline decorated a gardener-set tree with candles, tinsel, and a shining star.
1936 Frances Garnet Wolseley, influential gardening author and educator, died; founder of the Glynde College for Lady Gardeners and author of Gardening for Women, she championed rigorous horticultural training for women.
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A wintry windowpane vignette that melts with the morning sun. “Jack Frost” by Helen Bayley Davis
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“’ Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Gardeners’ Editions — from 1960s lawn chemicals to 1980s UPS elves with trowels, two playful parodies chart how gardening has changed (and how “a green thumb” remains the wish).
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